Diet is the most important aspect in a diabetic’s life. Basically, a good diet plan makes sure you are not deprived of the food you love to eat along with controlling your sugar levels. Eating smart is the key to a healthy diet. A diabetes diet is a guide that tells you how much and what kinds of food you can choose to eat at meals and snack times.

1. For a healthy diabetes management, lifestyle changes are crucial – most important focus aspects
are a good exercise work out, a healthy diabetic diet, and abstaining from smoking habit. These
changes not only bring down your sugar levels but also reduce your risk for
serious diabetic complications such as heart and blood vessel damage, kidney damage, nerve
damage and so on.
Following an appropriate diabetic diet is not very difficult in the present lifestyle, by virtue of a
wide variety of healthy diabetic diet options available. Small but important changes to your
routine diet can greatly influence your diabetes control. Some handy tips from the desk of
our Apollo Sugar dietician team are
 Eat in small quantities splitting to about 6 small meals per day instead of 3 large meals;
 NEVER skip your breakfast
 Fill half your plate with vegetables and fruits in every large meal
 Aim to have good quantities of fibre every day (>25 gm/day)
 Prefer whole grain foods to simple grain counterparts as they are high in fibre

2. Ex: (1) Prefer foods made from Atta versus Maida
(2) Prefer Brown rice /bread versus white rice/bread
(3) Fruits instead of fruit juices
 Minimize the saturated fat content in your food it can be harmful to your heart
 Preferably snack on
 Fresh fruit, unsalted nuts and plain popcorn or vegetable salads to snacks such as sev,
crisps,chevda and salted nuts.
 Fresh sprouted mung beans or dhokla instead of pakoras, bhajis and dal vada.
 Have baked samosas or other foods, instead of frieditems, to reduce the amount of fat you
use.
 Rather than beef or mutton as your non-vegetarian dish, choose fish as it is rich in essential
fats and low in saturated fats
 Check with your doctor if you are at risk of low blood sugar episode, and carry some sugary
snack with you always